🇻🇦🇱🇧⚡- The Pope, during his visit to Lebanon, has called on Hezbollah to "lay down their weapons and pursue diplomacy."

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- Witkoff-Putin talks are still ongoing at the Kremlin, lasting beyond three hours.

🇺🇸🇨🇴⚡- "Do not threaten our sovereignty because you will awaken the jaguar," - Gustavo Petro, Colombian President, to President Trump.

🇺🇸🇨🇴⚡- "Come to Colombia, Mr. Trump, I invite you, so you can participate in the destruction of the nine drug labs we destroy daily to prevent cocaine from reaching the US.

Without missiles, I have destroyed 18,400 drug labs during my administration. Come with me, and I'll show you how they're destroyed—one lab every 40 minutes.

But don't threaten our sovereignty, because you'll awaken the Jaguar. Attacking our sovereignty is declaring war. Don't damage two centuries of diplomatic relations.

You've already slandered me; don't continue down that path. If any country has helped stop thousands of tons of cocaine from reaching Americans, it's Colombia," - Gustavo Petro Colombian President, to President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump continues to insist the economy is good and calls complaints about affordability a "con job" by the Democrats.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- President Trump's Hanukkah party at the White House will be held on December 16th.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- “An Israeli attack on Lebanon to come within days or weeks.” - American assessments via i24.

Putin's talks with Witkoff and Kushner in the Kremlin ended after five hours, with no compromise reached

Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov summed up the meeting, saying that "no compromises have been found so far, and a meeting between the Russian and U.S. leaders is not planned at this moment."

According to him, "the specific wording of the U.S. peace plan was not discussed at Putin's meeting with Witkoff." Moscow received four additional documents beyond Trump's original peace plan, Ushakov said.

The talks also touched on the "future of economic cooperation between Russia and the United States."

Ushakov declined to provide further details, noting that both sides agreed not to disclose the substance of the negotiations.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "A compromise could not be reached. A peaceful plan has not been developed," - Yuri Ushakov, Russian Presidential Foreign Policy Aide.

Steve Witkoff has flown out of Moscow.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Trump DOJ official Harmeet Dhillon at the Israel Hayom conference celebrates the Trump Administration’s efforts to crack down on colleges for not supporting Israel.

She then surprisingly defends the First Amendment after being asked if the Admin could do anything about Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson.

🇹🇷🇷🇺⚡- "Besiktas Shipping, the Turkish owner of an oil tanker that was damaged near Senegal's coast last week after being hit by four external explosions, said that it was ceasing all shipping operations involving Russian interests," - Reuters.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "The UN General Assembly decision demands that Israel withdraw from the entire occupied Syrian Golan.

Syria's engagement in talks on technical matters that may affect its security and the security of the region does not mean it is relinquishing that the Golan is Syrian land.

The increase in the number of countries voting in favor of the UN resolution shows the extent of support for the new Syrian government and its stance on the Israeli occupied Golan Heights," - The new Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has for the first time since taking over from the Assad regime demanded the withdrawal of Israel from the Golan region.

🇺🇸⚡️- Tennessee 7th Congressional District special election is too close to call however the Democrats are hitting some of the benchmarks they need to win, its possible they only come up short by less than 5 points.

🇺🇸⚡️- Democratic candidate Aftyn Behn has taken a temporary lead in the race as Nashville reports in however the GOP will take back the lead as election day votes begin getting counted. Race will be very close.

🇺🇸⚡️- Republican Matt Van Epps has been elected to the House of Representatives from Tennessee's 7th Congressional District.

🇺🇸⚡️- Despite the GOP doing better than expected compared to other special elections this year, some House members are raising alarm bells to leadership and signaling more possible retirements.

🇩🇪🇮🇱⚡- Germany deploys the Arrow-3 air defense system, the first time the system has been used outside of Israel.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- An Israeli delegation will visit Beirut to hold direct economic negotiations with Lebanon, Netanyahu's Press Office reports.

🇻🇪🇮🇷⚡- Iran evacuates the families of its diplomats from Venezuela amid rising tensions, IRIB reports.

🇫🇷🇨🇳⚡- French President Macron arrives in China for a 3-day state visit.